York-aholic wrote: ↑Tue Jan 28, 2025 6:50 am

the elephant wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2025 9:09 pm I've always thought this one was a real toe-tapper…

Can that be played by us BBb and Eb tuba players or is it more of an F/CC thing?

Yes.

Also, poking around on the site, one of the simonetti links asks me to log in. And i'm mildly confused as none of the others do: the Carl Fischer BBb in particular. If i come across another, i'll mention it. PS. merely a broken link, visible if you click on Fischer, but on a higher level there is a ...

What if we only get old tubas?

Trying to remember if i've bought a tuba new...

And i have gotten my fair share of night tubas, too. Do they count?

I may have a holton neck it might fit, or one other tuba comes to mind, being an old french make that came with king receiver as an adaptor.

Also see the bloke's big horn thread for applicable adjectives.

I no longer am in need of either blaikley or enharmonic, but i figured i'd mention the quest nearly two years ago was sufficiently long that like person who has faced starvation inexplicably stockpiling food in corners, i still keep an eye out for these, and ogle them every chance i get. Perhaps a ...

Been pondering it since i asked. It is a double of a two valve bugle, which gets no respect in modern music, what with not being chromatic in the usual range. Which is why you need to double it. And adding one valve doubles the number of valve combinations possible, from a combinatorics perspective ...

The reason I only post one image is for readers to click on the featured instrument link to examine the entire featured horn, to learn more about it, and to possibly explore the entire Museum...instead of having it just handed to them....too many people today want everything handed to them, instead ...

https://simonettitubacollection.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/200411-3.jpg I feel ya need to see both sides of one of these to fully appreciate them. I would point out double accurately describes the mechanism of compensation, but with a 3 valve instrument raises the question... double what? But ...

peterbas wrote: ↑Sun Jan 19, 2025 4:02 am That is twice the price then what they are being sold for in Europe.

Would that be a negative box it checks?
I suppose $674* shipping would be then, too...

... - false tones rivaling those offered by the best sousaphones ... There was a thread recently (within a month or so) expressing difficulty in bringing the first false tone up Eb in pitch. It may have specifically referred to a removable bell version... That said, i fielded a request last fall to ...

I recommend that you take it to a tech and have it drilled. If you're almost right there at that world class sound thing, that could get you over the finish line. I subscribe to the hammer and nail school myself. Stop being a cheapskate, buy a dozen and puts those everywhere. :gaah: Strings? Or ...

Just checking for an update today on the Shoemaker... Cobbler, please. Too lazy to provide a useful update. I am not nearly as regular as the OP. Something at a store took 45 minutes, so i fed a meter a few extra quarters, pulled out a wee eber, chair (this one has no strap eyes) as well as a ...

bloke wrote: ↑Tue Jan 14, 2025 2:01 am I recommend that you take it to a tech and have it drilled.

If you're almost right there at that world class sound thing, that could get you over the finish line.

I subscribe to the hammer and nail school myself.

Does that mean you have extra strap rings in case i have a tuba without (enough) of them?

tubatodd wrote: ↑Tue Jan 07, 2025 9:25 am
Fun fact: My wife bought me a bunch of tuba t-shirts for Christmas. One of them was of the Marzan patent. She had NO IDEA how cool or unique it was when she bought it. I was amazed when I opened it.

Awesome t-shirt. Where do i get one?

Point of order... Do i have to rant to post in this thread? None of my groups are currently rehearsing, so i get to do what i want. And my audience of choice give my intonation the benefit of the doubt, as i am on a street corner with no one to tune to but passing traffic. If intonation is the ...

$25 was the MINIMUM bid increment...not the maximum... ...and the maximum bid does not necessarily show up on an item's page. But if you bid 1550, the other autobid enters 1575. At that point you cannot bid less than 1600. The answer is probably that minimum increment thresholds are different in ...

You were supposed to be a far better mathematician than I am. I understand how a bid such as the one that showed at the end could be possible, and I'm not going to explain it to you, because I think you can figure it out for yourself. Please understand that this is nothing more than a compliment ...

$25 was the MINIMUM bid increment...not the maximum... ...and the maximum bid does not necessarily show up on an item's page. But if you bid 1550, the other autobid enters 1575. At that point you cannot bid less than 1600. The answer is probably that minimum increment thresholds are different in ...

We've all seen a couple if not more than a couple Alex tubas with replaced not-Alex bells. It would have been easy to show the krantz and the name, and it would have been easy to have identified the instrument by its name in the auction. It would have also have been easy for that seller to have ...